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Tokyo, 1985. The world's first megacity is at the height of its dynamism.
Forty years ago, a frenzy of creativity galvanised the Japanese capital. From fashion to movies to electronics, Tokyo was forging the future. Factories run by robots, the world's first high-speed trains, apartment blocks built from shipping containers, love hotels modelled on Bavarian castles...
In the thick of it, a young British teacher gazed around and asked questions. Why...
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The end of the world was supposed to come with zombies attached, or maybe a flying meteor, but Dell finds that the reality is much less exciting and infinitely lonelier.
In the wake of a virus that decimated the population, the place she calls home has turned into a ghost town. She hasn't talked to anyone but her cat in weeks and finding an unopened bag of chips while looting the local grocery store is the only thrill she's feeling. There must be...
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
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2017.
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"At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower. At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of...
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A boy finds himself a survivor after a traumatic, mysterious event that occurs all over the world. Without any kind of communication, he must resort to new ways of coping.
He writes his thoughts in a two-year diary as he tries to come to terms with the events happening to him. He goes on a road trip to find other members of his family and meets many exciting, frightening and dramatic events on the way.
He must learn new skills and adapt to the new...
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Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers,...
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A unique illustrated exploration of our favorite oceanic beacons and their haunted histories.
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. These precariously perched structures have been the homes and workplaces of keepers whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. While that way of life may have faded away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories.
This...
54) War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur and the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945
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One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth." Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps--New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the Empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war. Allied Commander-in-Chief...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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The use of Christian apocalyptic myths has changed significantly over the centuries. Initially used by genuinely disenfranchised groups, they are used today as a response to more egalitarian treatment of minorities in American society. The apocalyptic framework allows the patriarchy to frame itself as the victim who must restore America to a past where white male power went uncontested. This kind of white anxiety over increasing minority rights frequently...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Grasshopper and Ant aren't exactly enemies, but they're certainly not friends. Grasshopper lives for the moment. He likes to practice yoga and rehearse with his band. But Ant keeps messing up Grasshopper's flow with loud construction. Ant is a planner. He is convinced the world is going to end, so he's building a bunker. Grasshopper can't help but be annoyed. But all that changes when disaster strikes! Is it the end of the world? Can Grasshopper convince...
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Yen Press
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2022
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In a world torn apart by an apocalypse, two lonely little girls chance upon a strange video. To their surprise and joy, a girl with long black hair named Sadako climbs out of the TV...But little do they know that Sadako is a vengeful ghost who will kill them in a week! In order to help their new friend, these two sweet, innocent girls begin a journey to the end of the world to look for more victims friends. Can their bond with Sadako help her find...